An engineer in his mid twenties based in southern Wisconsin, Gherald has been hooked on the blogosphere since encountering Andrew Sullivan during the 2004 cycle.

He began writing himself in 2008, mainly to vent frustration with the Bush-Cheney-Palin axis of the GOP. His amateur interests include economics, civil liberty, freethought, and hard-nosed political realism.

[Indogutsu] According to an “On This Day in America” calendar hanging on the wall in my office, Robert Fulton (the inventor of the steamboat) appeared before a House committee on February 14th, 1810 to explain the uses of torpedoes.
[Indogutsu] So to all of you who, for whatever reason, can’t find love and feel left out and bitter on Valentine’s Day, you can instead use this day to remember Robert Fulton and his contributions to undersea warfare.

It used to be I had Gmail and Google Reader as permanent tabs in my browser, and spent 3 or more hours a day in the later. But the permanent Reader tab has been displaced by…. Facebook, and I just noticed I have 781 unread Daily Dish items.

Egads, but I’d hardly recognize myself from 4 months ago. Any day now I’ll be forced to turn in my political junkie credentials…